Hubbard Glacier Calving - Two HUGE ones - September 16, 2010

[sault352]

Oceans start rising approx 20K years ago as last ice age ends. Rate of rise is linear till about 5000BC. Then slope changes. New linear slope from 5000 BC to current, Slope same through last 100 years. So... GLobal warming -- real. That man causes it, the data doesn't show it. Now... Consuming oil recklessly, as a fininte resource, and while funding people who are not neccesarily ones to support -- that IS a real issue, but don't use the bogus global warming argument.

[F3502000]

@sault352 Nuh Uh...its cause of cow farts! :-)

[chuckbyf1]

Woohooooo. The ice is all melting!! Wait, that ain't good.

[rietveen26]

@chuckbyf1 actually it's a sign that the glacier is still working

[pupilofreality]

They are cheering the destruction of ice on our planet? Wow, what a bunch of deluded and misinformed idiots.

[ZeWarlord]

@pupilofreality *sigh*

[Blubberkwab]

@pupilofreality that was exactly what I was thinking.

[pupilofreality]

@Blubberkwab What were you thinking?

[SuperMike01234]

Why are they cheering wen there isnt much of the glaciers left because there Melting! :D

[ZeWarlord]

@SuperMike01234 Are you retarded? How many times do we have to tell people that glacier calving has nothing to do with global warming?

[SuperMike01234]

@ZeWarlord so why they melting then you RETARD!

[ZeWarlord]

@SuperMike01234 Read the top comments.

[canuckaholic91]

@SuperMike01234 you're so stupid. SNOW STARTS UP TOP, WHEN THEY GO TO THE BOTTOM, THEY MELT. simple as that, fuck...

[SuperMike01234]

@ZeWarlord ikr im a retard well done

[bradfordbear97]

I am making a free music video on global warming for a local band and would like to use a few seconds of your video - please may i do so? (i shall include your name in the end credits). regards, Jay. (please let me know via email guy.smiley@aol.com)

[billwi]

@bradfordbear97 Sure....

[LakerKev]

I just witnessed calving at Hubbard glacier about a week ago on a cruise. Breathtaking to say the least.

[billwi]

@LakerKev Yes, it is breathtaking...hope you had a wonderful cruise!

[wovelscotch]

@Dannyb1022 cause... its a LOT of ice

[vaderdani]

@listenthinkspeak OMG... how can you be so stupid???

you should learn more about glaciers..

[arstovicek]

Glaciers are essentially rivers of snow and ice. Calving is the natural reaction of that river when it comes in contact with the seas. Disappearing glaciers are caused by the reduction of accumulation at the tops and premature melting from higher temperatures. If the glacier wasn't calving it would mean there was a lot less snow and ice were pushing it's way down. Calving is a good sign of healthy glacier.

[Keinlicht]

@arstovicek Uh i wouldnt say calving itself says much about a glacier, its more about calving rate/ice density and depth.

[pogomwg]

@Mikerohren you sir are an idiot

[chessonmyshirt]

@Mikerohren

This isn't Global Warming.

This is the natural life of a Glacier, they form at the top of Glacier mountains and calv towards the bottom.

[Maxid1]

@chessonmyshirt Then why has the majority of the glacial mass disappeared in last 50-60 years? If this is "the natural life of a glacier" it's a cycle that causes everything else to die. We've got city blocks of glacier running aground in Newfoundland. How "natural" is that?

[chessonmyshirt]

@Maxid1

You're getting Glacial calving mixed up with global warming which is the increased temperatures causing the poles to melt quicker.

If there was no Glacial calving the world would be covered with ice -_-

[Maxid1]

@chessonmyshirt What is your opinion as to why the glacial mass has so significantly decreased in the past 60 years?

[chessonmyshirt]

@Maxid1

Global warming, whether this is natural or caused by man is something we as humans don't know at this point in time.

This is different to Glacial calving.

[pupilofreality]

@chessonmyshirt Wrong. The only people trying to deny global warming is caused by the actions of humans are people in the pocket of the oil conglomerates. 99% of climatologists and scientists in all related fields agree, global warming is occuring, it is escalating, and it is caused by human activity. Turn off the right wing corporate news you listen to. Your being lied to.

[chessonmyshirt]

@pupilofreality

You've obviously taking my statement in a very wrong way, I'd be the first to agree that something should be done about global warming just to be on the safe side - but the evidence is out there that proves this could also be a natural part of the earth's development, we have warming and cooling periods.

I should have been more clear and said it is the extent at which humans are causing global warming that is in question, there is no doubt we have a role in it.

[thatbritts]

@chessonmyshirt

It hasn't been called "Global Warming" since Al Gore found out it cools down in the winter, Now they call it "Climate Change", Just like Obamas "Change"

[pupilofreality]

@thatbritts Lol. It was called global warming when the atmosphere was warming noticably because of elevated carbon in the thin atmosphere, which is now off the scale going back 163,000 years. It is now causing the CLIMATE to CHANGE! and not imperceptively, but in profound ways. Hence, dear foxian fool, the term climate change.

[USGiorgi]

@chessonmyshirt

I've been trying to explain that to people on other videos and I'm being called a redneck... WTF? 

[rietveen26]

@USGiorgi just feel superior, knowing that what you know is the truth :)

[GabOrcinus]

I was crew on the Rad from april to october last year, so you must've seen me somewhere. I remember this was our last Alaska cruise before heading down to the Panama Canal.